The Eye of the World by Robert Jordan, Book 1 of The Wheel of Time
Started: 21 November 2021
Finished: 25 December 2021
If you looked at when I started reading Eye of the World and wondered if it coincided with Amazon’s Wheel of Time series… you’d be right. It does.
The back story here, is that I read up to Book 5 or 6 of The Wheel of Time in middle school. I got sick and tired of Rand. Like. Could not under any circumstances imagine slogging through his POV for hundreds of more pages, and so, I stopped reading. I quite. No more RAFO for me.
Until, of course, I started watching the Amazon series like a good fantasy fan and got annoyed that I didn’t know where the story was going. So, I dusted off my copy of The Eye of the World, and here we are.
Re-reading did remind me why I got into these books in the first place. Mostly, I love Lan. But the Emond’s Field Five have an energy about them, and following their journey reminds me how impactful Robert Jordan’s storytelling was for the fantasy genre. I was mostly reading this book with an eye to how the show was telling Jordan’s story, so my thoughts mostly amount to: still good, now a classic, Rand is a jerk, I love Lan, and end there.
I am hoping to continue to read books to keep pace with the show, so, I’ll eventually pick up more Wheel of Time books in the future, I imagine.
2021 Reads:
- This is How You Lose the Time War by Amal el-Mohtar and Max Gladstone
- Shuri by Nic Stone
- Scythe by Neal Shusterman
- Thunderhead by Neal Shusterman
- The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms by N.K. Jemisin
- Shadow and Bone by Leigh Bardugo
- The Bone Shard Daughter by Andrea Stewart
- Empire of Sand by Tasha Suri
- Realm of Ash by Tasha Suri
- Magic’s Pawn by Mercedes Lackey
- Magic’s Promise by Mercedes Lackey
- Magic’s Price by Mercedes Lackey
- Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir
- The Eye of the World by Robert Jordan, Book 1 of The Wheel of Time